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Drawdown: The World’s First Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming

Renowned environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken believes that it is in our power to stop global warming, and his new book—Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming—lays out how we can do it. Paul visited Airbnb HQ to talk about the 100 solutions to global warming that Project Drawdown has spent the last few years modeling and ranking. According to Paul, no one has ever proposed a plan to reverse global warming before, and many preeminent climate scientists struggle to name the top five solutions. Now, thanks to Project Drawdown, all this is changing—though Paul, a firm believer in collective wisdom, emphasized that Project Drawdown modeled these solutions using existing data. “We didn’t make the plan. We found it,” Paul said. Eighty of the 100 solutions presented are currently underway and scaling, and 20 are what Paul refers to as “coming attractions” which have been validated scientifically but don’t yet have data behind them. Paul also talked about ways in which the sharing economy might help us use our resources more efficiently